{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010059.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010059.htm","text":"Who then among you is noble-minded? who compassionate? who full of love? Let him declare, \u201cIf on my account sedition and disagreement and schisms have arisen, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever ye desire, and I will do whatever the majority 241 commands; only let the flock of Christ live on terms of peace with the presbyters set over it.\u201d He that acts thus shall procure to himself great glory in the Lord; and every place will welcome 242 him. For \u201cthe earth is the Lord\u2019s, and the fulness thereof.\u201d 243 These things they who live a godly life, that is never to be repented of, both have done and always will do.\nLiterally, \u201cthe multitude.\u201d [Clement here puts words into the mouth of the Corinthian presbyters. It has been strangely quoted to strengthen a conjecture that he had humbly preferred Linus and Cletus when first called to preside.]\n19:242 19:243\nPs. xxiv. 1; 1 Cor. 10:26, 28.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: CLEMENT OF ROME: Chapter LIV.\u2014He who is full of love...","type":"page"}